初三中考英语首字母填空专项练习(含答案)

.上海初三中考英语首字母填空专项练习一、firefighters or firemen play an important role in our daily life. in some places, firefighters use watchtowers to look for smoke and fires, although they get a fire report by telephone. a high tower is still very u 67 for watching and guarding a place. fire fighters also make it a placefor practice. they learn how to p68out fires from burning buildings.they try to c69 up the outside of the tower as fast as possible. they carry water hoses up to the fire. they practise carrying imaginable victims down f70high ladders.there are reasons that firefighters are called for help. maybe a building or a forest is o71fire. a train accident happens and people are t72inside. still, people need to be rescued from floodsor an earthquake. whenever there is an emergency situation,they can be seen f73 there.being a fire fighter needs a lot of t74. in the first place, firefighters should know how to educate the community （社区）by visiting schools, community centres and people in their own homes to p75fire and accidents from starting. they have to learn how to deal with differentdangerous situations. above all, it s necessary for firefighters to exercise everyhday76to be and strong.二、man has a big brain. he can think and s72languages. scientists once thought that man isn t the same as animals b73man can think and learn. they know now that dogs, monkeys andbirds can learn, too.they are beginning to u74that men are different fromanimals because they can speak.animals can t speak. they make munch 75when they are afraid, or unhappy. apes(猿) canlearn some things more quickly than man. one or two of them have learned a few words. but they can not joinwords to make s76. they cannot thinkl77us because they have no language. language isa wonderfulthing.manhas been a78tobuilda modern world because he has language. every child can speak his own language very w79when he is four or five, b80no animals learn to speak.how do children learn it? scientists don twreal8ly1knowhappens inside our body whenwe speak. they only know that man can speak because he has a brain.三、our dog, rex, used to sit outside our front gate and bark. every time he wanted to come into the garden he would bark u72someone opened the gate. as the neighbours complained of the noise, my husband s73weeks training him to press his paw on the latch (门闩 ) to let himself in. rex soon became good at o74the gate.h 75 , when i was going out shopping last week, i n 76 him in the garden near the gate. this time he was barking so that someone would let him o 77 ! since then, he has developed another bad h 78 . as soon as he opens the gate from the outside, he comes i 79 the garden;.and waits until the gate shuts. then he sits and barks until someone lets him out. after this he immediately lets himself in and begins barking a 80 . yesterday my husband removed the gate and rex got soa 81 that he disappeared. since then, we have not seen him.四、elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. one winter, there was a big flood and quite a f 72 houses were washed away, but elizabeth s houese w73as higtoh escape it.elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. she shared her home until the family could build a 74 house. elizabeth s friends could not underwstan7d5 she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support.“ well,” elizabeeth76to her friends,“ at the end of wrori,ldthwerae was a poor woman in a town in germany. her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like m77now. ”“ the day before christmas, this woman said to her children,a78 wtoehwavoenmutcbhefor christmas. im going to get just one p79for us all. now i ll go and get it. she came backw80a little girl who had no parents. here s our present, she said to her own children. the children were more than excited to get such a present. they welcomed the little girl warmly,and she g81up as their sister. i was that christmas present.”五、teenagers are very busy at school now and often forget to think about their diets and sports. the truth is that healthy eating and regular exercise are t 67 ways to keep fit.d 68 your teenage years, it is important to give your body enough e 69 it needs. young girls need about 2,200 calories a day. usually boys need a bit m 70 , many doctors suggest, 2,800 calories for teenage b 71 . 50% of your calories should come from rice, bread, vegetables and fruit. you also need to drink a lot of water, 6 to 8 glasses a day. d 72 enough water will improve your dry skin and give you healthy body.physical a 73 , such as playing basketball and swimming, are something that can help to make you look good, feel good and be healthy. experts ( 专 家 ) suggest that teenagers spend at l74 30 minutes exercising a day, five times a week.afteryouexercise a bit,yourbodyproduces something that makes you feel r75and comfortable. it can even help you sleep better at night and let you p76more attention when you study.六、years ago in scotland, the clarkfamilyhad a dream. the couple worked and saved, making p 72 for their nine children and themselves to travel to the usa. it had taken years before they saved enough money and got everything r 73 for the trip.the whole family was excited about their new life. however, seven days b74they left for the usa, the youngest son was bitten （咬） by a dog. the doctor treated the boy,b75because there was a possibility of rabies（ 狂犬病）, they would be kept away from others for fourteen days.the family s dream could not cotme76. they would not be able to make the trip to america as they had planned. watching the ship leave-without the clark family, the father was quitea77with both his son and god for their bad luck.five days later, a piece of sad news s 78 throughout scotland-the strong and powerful ship, titanic, had gone down, taking h79of lives with it. the clark family was to have been on that ship, but because the son was bitten by a dog, they were left b80in scotland.when mr clark heard the news, he thanked his son for saving the family. he thanked the god fort81a sad thing into a good one.although we may not always understand, all things happen for a reason.七、advertisements are everywhere! they re on the radi,oinanthdetnvewspapers and magazines, and on buses, and b67 they reon websites and mobile phones companies give their products to film stars, pop stars and sports stars to u68so that fans will buy them in order to copy the starsadvertisements have become so common that they aren wt69any more we don ltikeadvertisements so we trynot tosee them we turno70the advertisements onour computerswe refuse to watch them on tv , or read them in magazines we no l71pay attention to theposters all around us we don t copy the stars because we know maybe they don the things they advertise r72like tthis means that advertising companies need a neww73to sell their products they can tmake their products“ cool ” by adveardtisvienrgtisements aren t cool, and teenagers won t buy the things in advertisements j74because the advertisements say they are fashionable thelatest way to advertise is not to advertise i75of using stars, companies are using teenagers they pay them to tell their friends about new products teenagers don t want to dress like everyone else and buy the things that everyoneelse hasthey want to look d76and create their own styles teenagers d